{"id":2005,"date":"2012-09-10T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:25","slug":"perry-james-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/perry-james-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"PERRY, James Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Decatur<\/p>\n<p><strong>PERRY, James Franklin<\/strong>, minister of the Gospel; born Meigs Co., Aug. 4, 1849; son of<strong> Allen <\/strong>and <strong>Matilda (McKeeham) PERRY; p<\/strong>aternal grandparents <strong>James<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth (Smith) PERRY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>George<\/strong> and <strong>Mary (Millard) McKEEHAM<\/strong>; educated at Decatur Academy and East Tenn., University; in early life was a farmer and school; married twice; first <strong>Maggie V. BROWN<\/strong>, Sept. 5, 1872; second <strong>Callie BISHOP<\/strong> Aug. 2, 1905; member Lodge No. 591 F. &amp; A.M.; Republican; converted to Christianity Aug.\u00a0 4, 1866; licensed to preach May 1872 and joined the Holston Conference the following Oct.; was ordained Deacon by <strong>Bishop BOWMAN<\/strong> Oct. 3, 1875; ordained Elder by <strong>Bishop HARRIS<\/strong> Sept. 30, 1877; has spent 32 years in active work in ministry, four years of which as presiding Elder Attens District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Decatur PERRY, James Franklin, minister of the Gospel; born Meigs Co., Aug. 4, 1849; son of Allen and Matilda (McKeeham) PERRY; paternal grandparents James and Elizabeth (Smith) PERRY; maternal grandparents George and Mary (Millard) McKEEHAM; educated at Decatur Academy and East Tenn., University; in early life was a farmer and school; married twice; first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,643,85,418,4419],"tags":[1004,208,1002,1003,4336,4356],"class_list":{"0":"post-2005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-decatur-academy","7":"category-meigs","8":"category-surname-p","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bishop","12":"tag-brown","13":"tag-mckeeham","14":"tag-millard","15":"tag-perry","16":"tag-smith","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}